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The Lord said, “Look! They are one people with the same language for all of them, and this is only the beginning of what they will do.[a] Nothing that they have a mind to do will be impossible for them! Come on! Let’s go down there and confuse their language, so that they won’t understand each other’s speech.”

So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the whole earth, so that they had to stop building the city.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:6 The Heb. lacks of what they will do

The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language(A) they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us(B) go down(C) and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”(D)

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,(E) and they stopped building the city.

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